Case Study: Navigating VKS Upgrades – Balancing Infrastructure Constraints and Application Reality

Source: VMware Blog

Kubernetes upgrades are often presented as straightforward, linear progressions: move from one version to the next, validate, and repeat. This approach—commonly called the Sequential In-Place Upgrade—is proven, conservative, and widely adopted. However, in modern enterprise platforms, upgrades span much more than just the Kubernetes version number. They involve a complex interplay of a management plane …